De zes reizen van den Heer J. Bapt. Tavernier, die hij, gedurende de tyt van veertig jaren, in Turkyen, Persiën, en in d'Indiën, langs alle de wegen, die derwaarts strekken, gedaan heeft / door J.H. Glazemaker vertaalt. [The six journeys by Mr J. Bapt. Tavernier, taken over the course of forty years in Turkey, Persia, and India, along all roads that lead there / translated by J.H. Glazemaker] - Amsterdam,
1682
'Severe punishment of Cha-Abas, meted out to a baker and broiler' (opposite 438, original)
In seventeenth-century Persia artisans faced exceptional dangers in some cases. Abbas II (1633-1667), shah of Persia from 1642 to 1667, performed regular inspections in his kingdom. Disguised as an ordinary citizen, he would wander through Isfahan and check whether merchants and artisans obeyed the law. Once he discovered a baker and a butcher cheating on merchandise weight. The next day he had them arrested and tried. [Tavenier's translation reads:] 'This baker will be thrown into a hot oven built on the market, where he will be burned, because he has sold bread with a false weight; and this broiler will be burned alive, because he too has sold broiled meat with a false weight.' And so it happened, as this print reveals.
Call number:
AB F 1686